Product description

Product description

Languages of the World teaches you to use real language, in context, using the widest variety of interactive activities available from any multi-language learning product today.

Manufacturer's Description

Discover the world's common and uncommon languages, from Arabic to Zulu, with 101 Languages of the World by Transparent Language. Learning to speak another language is made easy, quick and fun. Right from the start, learners of any level--even complete beginners--can start using a foreign language with this unique learning system. Tune your ear and build your comprehension with games and listening activities. Perfect your speaking skill with advanced pronunciation analysis. Participate in real dialogues to learn to speak like a native. 101 Languages of the World also includes a free multilingual word processor, the Unitype GlobalWriter. Type in over 100 languages; get spell checking, thesauruses, character sets and more!

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Although it uses the same phrases as most other his programs of type, the sheer quantity of languages of both popular and little known, make it stand out. All in all, a very good product for a ridiculously low price.

The software offers a wide and varied selection of the world's languages. It gives you a concise course for the most popular languages: French, Spanish etc to enticing samplers of the more exotic tongues such as Tahitien or Quecha.One of the few criticisms I would have would be in relation to the vocabulary lists of about 25 languages. Of the languages in question such as Cornish or Romansch, there are no pronunciation guides or sentence or grammatical structures to assist the user further. Also, I found the information on Provencal inaccurate. This language within the Provence region is not considered a dialect of Occitan and the spelling on offer is not a system recognised in this region. I may seem to be splitting hairs but this is a very contentious issue in this area.Lastly, some of the languages such as Breton have no reference grammars unlike for instance Arabic or Chinese which would be of interest to those of a certain approach to language learning.However, for the price and the selection on offer it is a good enough method to start off with and it has given legitmacy and space to the many languages under threat in this day and age.

This is a great CD-ROM for learning basic phrases for holidays (sorry, you won't be fluent), and just for pleasure. One slight gripe is that seeing as there are far superior courses for languages such as French and Italian, the publishers could have concentrated more on languages such as Slovak or Hungarian, for which there are no Pimsleur/Michel Thomas - style courses available from public libraries. It's still a superb product though.

I bought this because I'm interested in languages, and to learn a few basics of the less commonly offered European languages covered.

OK, it is written by Americans for Americans - the Spanish offered is Latin American Spanish, but most holidaying Brits mis-pronounce it anyway! And there is a plethora of Native American languages, while 'other' Indian languages, such as Punjabi and Gujerati, spoken by tens of millions of people, are omitted.

But so what? What other piece of software can let you read and hear so many basic (but useful) phrases in so many languages? AND have a device for s-l-o-w-i-n-g down the speed of the audio part so you can keep up with it. AND have a grammatical breakdown of every phrase.

For the price, it's a bargain, an absolute gem and fun to use. Purists should save their criticism for more 'high-brow' courses costing ten, twenty times this price. Enjoy!

Still discovering all the goodies in this amazing package. There are all kinds of interactive features to help you with the mundane stuff like vocabulary learning and getting the spelling exactly right. Suddenly, learning a bunch of words doesn't seem that boring any more, when you can fill in crosswords and play other little games.Just a couple of things puzzle me. There's a separate facility for Canadian French and European French, and also for Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese. But there's only one learning track for English (for Spanish speakers) and also for Spanish, despite these being major languages with distinct European/American varieties....why??Also, why do I only score "good" and not "wow!" when testing my pronounciation of my own native language??? (OK so I didn't really need to do this...)Despite the above comments I think this is a fantastic buy, worth every penny, and unlike all the teach yourself language packs I have bought in the past (which just got stuck on the shelf collecting dust), I am actually using it and learning from it. Highly recommended!